[Agentlien]

> Losing trademark if Mac becomes a generic word

This is interesting considering that it was a common word before Apple started. Both the variety of apple called Macintosh and a Mac raincoat (named after Charles Macintosh).

Though it would be really funny if the Beatles were referring to a computer in Penny Lane:

"And the banker never wears a mac in the pouring rain. Very strange"

[brazzy]

Trademarks are specific to a kind of product or service. A Mac raincoat does not violate a trademark on Mac computers or software.